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Yeah, it is interesting how chosing methaphors change the outcome. For example change 'carpenter' to 'artist' and 'hammer carpenter' to 'painter', 'musician' or
by nadam 16y ago
Yeah, it is interesting how chosing methaphors change the outcome. For example change 'carpenter' to 'artist' and 'hammer carpenter' to 'painter', 'musician' or 'sculptor' and you have different outcome. Or change carpenter to scientist. Or even change to mathematician: a set theorist is really dealing with different things than a number theorists. These metaphors really have their limitations.
- msbarnett 16y agoMetaphors are necessarily colored by our perceptions and preferences. For instance, I'd say a set theorist is more equivalent to, say, an area specialist like an embedded systems developer, whereas a "javascript programmer" is like a mathematician who insists he's "only an addition guy".